Sugar High Friday - Sweet Gyoza on The Dark Side
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It's Sugar High Friday again and this months host Lovescool has chosen dark chocolate as the ingredient. Furthermore, Kelli and Andrew have suggested we look past our usual chocolate brownies and cake recipes to come up with something truly different.
My recent lessons in making gyoza had me thinking how could I turn pork gyoza into a dessert. And that was how this dish came about.
Chocolate and Walnut Gyoza with Strawberry Balsamic Dipping Sauce
Dipping Sauce
1/3 cup Balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 punnet strawberries
Mix vinegar and brown sugar and stir until almost dissolved.
Add sliced strawberries and set aside for at least an hour.
Later
Drain strawberries (and eat if you want to).
Put sugar balsamic mixture in pot on top of stove and boil until it becomes syrupy.
Gyoza
1 packet Dumpling pastry
Equal quantities of chopped walnuts and dark chocolate buttons
Mix walnuts and chocolate and soften in a bowl over hot water. Do not melt. The mixture needs to only soften a little and melt together to make working with it easier. It should be the consistency of mince.
Place a spoonful of mix onto a round of dough, wet edge of one half of dough, fold in half and pinch edges together in pleats.
In a fry pan over moderate heat add a few drops of walnut oil, add gyoza to pan and fry until bases are brown.
Tip in a 1/4 cup of water and cover fry pan with a lid. Gyoza are ready when the water has evaporated.
Serve with dipping sauce.
Barbara, look yammy and great idea! I've never made it, so I'll try to make Sweet Gyoza on this weekend.
Posted by: Ryoko | October 21, 2005 at 03:37 PM
Hi Ryoko. Bryan just ate 6 of them!
Posted by: Barbara | October 21, 2005 at 03:53 PM
Great idea, Barbara. Were they as delicious as they look?
Posted by: Nic | October 21, 2005 at 11:10 PM
Beautiful!
(be on the lookout for a pkg from moi)--- (recipe to follow via eMail)
Mailed it Monday, le poste said about a week (I HOPE!)
Posted by: Melissa | October 22, 2005 at 01:04 AM
Nic - they were great. You could steam them also for a change.
Melissa - how exciting.
Canelédy wait!!
Posted by: Barbara | October 22, 2005 at 04:34 AM
Wow, I am extremely impressed. I love those dumplings and though I can't imagine eating them as a dessert, your recipe might make me think twice. So creative!
Posted by: mona | October 22, 2005 at 05:09 AM
Mona - they could be made with bean paste if you wanted a more authentic Asian taste.
Posted by: Barbara | October 22, 2005 at 05:53 AM
What a fun and delicious sounding recipe! One of these days I'm going to get around to contributing an entry for SHF! Thanks also, Barbara, for making my blog the Site of the Week!
Posted by: Brett | October 22, 2005 at 08:35 AM
What a fantastic idea! I bet they taste fantastic :)
Posted by: Kelly | October 22, 2005 at 02:20 PM
You're welcome Brett. It's a great site.
Kelly - they were great. I'm going to try the dipping sauce with summer fruits. When we get summer!
Posted by: Barbara | October 22, 2005 at 06:54 PM
Now this is what I was talking about! Very impressive. I can't wait to make this myself.
Posted by: Kelli | October 23, 2005 at 06:56 AM
What a neat idea. And an exquisite photo. : )
Posted by: farmgirl | October 24, 2005 at 05:57 AM
What a great twist! Gyoza are basically my favorite food! And now to be a to dessertify them I will be in heaven! Super entry! thanks!
Posted by: chronicler | October 25, 2005 at 02:20 AM
Thanks Kelli, Farmgirl abd Chronicler. I think I'll try steaming them next time.
Posted by: Barbara | October 25, 2005 at 04:35 AM
Barbara, isn't this idea just fab? ;) Looks great.
Posted by: keiko | October 31, 2005 at 09:41 PM
Thank you Keiko
Posted by: barbara | November 01, 2005 at 08:00 AM